Ultimate Compressive Strength Computational Modeling for Stiffened Plate Panels with Nonuniform Thickness

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to develop computational models for the ultimate compressive strength analysis of stiffened plate panels with nonuniform thickness. Modeling welding-induced initial deformations and residual stresses was presented with the measured data. Three methods, i.e., ANSYS finite element method, ALPS/SPINE incremental Galerkin method, and ALPS/ULSAP analytical method, were employed together with existing test database obtained from a full-scale collapse testing of steel-stiffened plate structures. Sensitivity study was conducted with varying the difference in plate thickness to define a representative (equivalent) thickness for plate panels with nonuniform thickness. Guidelines are provided for structural modeling to compute the ultimate compressive strength of plate panels with variable thickness.

Keywords

Ultimate compressive strength / Steel-stiffened plate structures / Nonuniform plate thickness / ANSYS finite element method / ALPS/SPINE incremental Galerkin method / ALPS/ULSAP analytical method

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Funding

University College London (UCL)